Monday, April 20th

We are learning to:

- Log into student emails

- Create folders to save activities

- Attach a file to an email and send

- Set up daily word documents

- Access text to speech in Microsoft word and PDF

English

- Understand the structure and features of a letter

What you will need today

Wellbeing Tip of the Day

Setting goals helps to keep you on track.

Mrs Paula’s Riddle of the Day

How do you spell cow in 13 letters?

When you see the camera image you are required to take

a photo of your work. This image needs to be attached to

an email and sent to your teacher or specialist teacher. If

you have typed out your work instead, please just attach

the file to the email.

These times are only a guide, as to the duration of the activity

40 minutes

Accessing How to Guides

Read through the How to Guide and set up your online learning space.

30 minutes

English – Letter Writing

Today you are to write a letter to your teacher about what you did on your school holidays. When writing your letter, you need to remember to include the facts and your feelings about the topics, as well as write in the appropriate letter structure. Find the letter structure below.

10 minutes Fruit Break

50 minutes English – Spelling and Reading

Choose 1 activity from the Spelling & Homework Ideas sheet to complete for 15 minutes. You will find this attached to your weekly plan. You will find this week’s spelling words below. Please print or copy these words somewhere safe, as you will need them every day this week!

Read independently for 20 minutes. Be sure to record this on your weekly reading log. The reading log can be found attached to your weekly plan.

Morning Tea

1 hour Mathematics – StudyLadder

Log on and try out some activities.

If you cannot access StudyLadder, practice your number facts.

30 minutes Bounce Back

Read through the ‘Bounce Back Acronym’ sheet and complete the task.

Wellbeing

Complete an activity from the ‘Wellbeing Bingo’ Sheet.

Lunch

5 minutes

What Went Well

Take a photo of something that you enjoyed doing today. Send this in an email to your teacher

1 hour Family Based Activity

Choose an activity from the ‘Family Based Activity’ Matrix to complete with the people in your household. This activity matrix can be found attached to your weekly plan.

Year 6 – Online Learning – How to Guide

Each morning you should check your email to see what is happening for the day.

Read the activities carefully and get your equipment ready.

Creating a File/Folder

To help you keep track of all your activities you should make a folder on your computer:

Once you have created this folder, all of your school work can be saved in here.

You can do this by going on My Documents

To create a new folder click on the circled icon and rename it as: ‘Your Name’ Term 2 Online

Opening Hyperlinks

If an activity on the weekly plan has a link for you to access, you can copy the link by highlighting it

and copy and pasting into the internet browser.

Completing Work

If there is a worksheet as part of the day plan you can either:

Print and complete

In your subject’s book, write a heading and complete all the activities underneath.

Create a word document, title it appropriately and record all the activities answers (please

see the word document example).

Sending Work to your Teacher

To send work back to your teacher you could:

Complete in a word document and send back via email as an attachment.

Take a photo and send to teacher via email (you could use a phone to take a photo or you

could open the webcam on your laptop, take a photo and save it to send)

Type answers into an email (with a clear heading and email subject) and send back to your

teacher.

Accessing Student Emails

1. Click on your internet browser

2. Go up the top to the address search bar and type in mis.eq.edu.au

3. OR you could go to Jinibara state school home webpage

https://jinibarass.eq.edu.au/Pages/default.aspx

4. On the right hand side down the bottom click on MIS Portal

By clicking on this link, it will take you directly to the student logon whereupon you would enter

both the user ID and password.

5. Each student has a unique user ID. You will be provided with your student’s user ID and

their accompanying password.

An example user ID: ahami108

An example password: Password.1

Forgotten passwords

If you or your student forgets their password you can email the following address

passwordreset@jinibarass.eq.edu.au

Send an email stating the name and user ID for the student. A temporary password will be sent

back to you and upon logging in you will have to create a new password of your choosing.

Password Criteria

1. Your password must be at least 8 characters in length

2. It needs a capital letter

3. It needs a number

4. It needs a special character ( ! , . * $ % )

Eg: Star*2020

You cannot use the students first or last name in the password. Your changed password must have a point of difference from the old one.

How to send an email and attach a file

1. In the top right hand corner click New Message

2. Type in your teachers email address after the ‘To’ section

3. Write a message in this section:

4. To attach a file click on the arrow next to the word attach

5. Click on browse this computer

6. Find the saved document that is needed to be sent

7. Press open

8. Send document

9. OR

How to Set Up Your Daily Word Documents

Monday, April 20th (include the date)

Miss McCaskill (include your name on all documents)

English – Student Learning Materials (Heading for what you are

working on)

(Your Work)

Include your answers to the student learning materials. Please

ensure to number your questions the same as they are on the

student learning materials.

English – Letter writing (Heading for what you are working on)

(Your Work)

Include your letter writing here.

English – Comprehension (Heading for what you are working on)

(Your Work)

Answer the question/task how needed

Math – Student Learning Materials (Heading for what you are working

on)

(Your Work)

Include your answers to the student learning materials. Please

ensure to number your questions the same as they are on the

student learning materials.

How to pin the speak button to the top ribbon - Microsoft

Use mouse to left click on down arrow on Quick Access Ribbon

This opens the Customise Quick Access Toolbar

Scroll down and select More Commands

This will open a Word Options Menu

From the Popular commands drop down menu, select Commands Not in the Ribbon

This opens a new menu of options

Scroll down to highlight Speak

Left click add button

The Speak icon will now appear on the right hand box. Click OK to close Word Options Menu

The Speak button should now appear in the Quick Access Ribbon.

To use, highlight the part of the text you wish to hear and then click on the Speak button.

Check that your volume is turned up!!

Read Aloud Feature - PDF

To use Read Out Loud, you need Acrobat Reader DC and a Text-to-Speech engine installed on your system. Acrobat Reader must have a voice selected that you have installed. Also, the document must be accessible, otherwise it is not read at all or it is read in the wrong order.

To verify your settings in Acrobat Reader:

1. Go to the Preferences dialog box of Acrobat Reader by selecting Edit > Preferences.

2. In the left pane, select Reading.

3. In the right pane, deselect the Use Default Voice and select a voice from the drop-down list that you have verified installed on your computer.

4. Click OK.

Note:

Read Out Loud is not supported by some operating systems.

Activate or deactivate Read Out Loud

Activate Read Out Loud to use it. You can deactivate Read Out Loud to free system resources and improve the performance of other operations.

Do one of the following:

Choose View > Read Out Loud > Activate Read Out Loud. Choose View > Read Out Loud > Deactivate ReadOut Loud.

Note that keyboard shortcuts are available.

To start the reading choose View > Read Out Loud > Read this page only or

View > Read Out Loud > Read to the End of the Document

English – Letter Writing

You should consider the following things in your letter writing: Facts

- Location description – what the area looks likes

- Technology devices that are used today

- Current events happening in our area

Feelings & Thoughts

- Students describe their feelings towards current events, their routines and their belongings.

StudyLadder Instructions

Weekly Spelling Week 1 Term 2

Spelling Focus

Advanced homophones

cereal serial

board bored

vary very

queue cue

course coarse

through threw

symbol cymbal

guest guessed

principle principal

lesson lessen

BOUNCE BACK ACRONYM

(When you encounter difficulties or hard times in your life that make you feel unhappy, you can try

to BOUNCE BACK to what you were like before.)

Bad times don’t last. Things always get better. Stay optimistic.

Sometimes it takes a while for a difficult situation to improve, but things will get better.

Other people can help if you talk to them. Get a reality check.

Choose someone you can trust.

Unhelpful thinking makes you feel more upset. Think again.

Helpful thinking is sensible thinking which is based on facts.

Using helpful thinking can make you feel calmer and more hopeful.

Nobody is perfect – not you and not others.

We all make mistakes. It is normal.

Concentrate on the positives (no matter how small) and use laughter.

The positives and laughter are the things to hang on to when the situation is not good.

Everyone experiences sadness, hurt, failure, rejection and setbacks sometimes, not just you. They

are a normal part of life. Try not to personalise them.

Unhappy things happen to everyone at times.

Blame fairly. How much of what happened was due to you, to others and to bad luck or

circumstances?

Things usually happen as a result of 3 things: what you did/or didn’t do, what other people

did/or didn’t do and bad luck or circumstances beyond your control.

Accept what can’t be changed (but try to change what you can change first).

Do your best to try and change things you don’t like in your life.

Catastrophising exaggerates your worries. Don’t believe the worst possible picture.

Catastrophising means thinking about the worst thing that could happen in a situation and

then assuming that it will happen.

Keep things in perspective. It’s only part of your life.

Bad things usually happen in one part of your life.

Review the Bounce Back acronym and create a Bounce Back poster using paper/pencils or

PowerPoint or Publisher or Paint and send a copy of your poster to your teacher.

Wellbeing Bingo